the @popcollin reviews

Not all movies can be great– I get that. And as a critic it’s sometimes even a little fun to completely tear apart a bad movie. But there are also movies that are so terribly misguided, lazy, and ridiculously bad that you don’t even want to put in the time […]

Back in May 2009, I wrote my first movie review– for Pixar’s Up. 500 reviews later, we have arrived at… Hot Tub Time Machine 2. And though I wish I could say it’s befitting of such a landmark moment in my not-really-career as a movie critic… yeah, no. Not only […]

Well, that’s it– Johnny Depp, as an actor, is officially dead to me. Sure, he had some fun moments as Captain Jack Sparrow, and I’ll always consider 21 Jump Street (the TV series, not the movie) my second home, but you could argue it’s been a good ten years (since […]

In Before I Go to Sleep, the pseudo-Hitchcockian thriller written and directed by Rowan Joffé (son of Roland), Nicole Kidman is Christine Lucas, a 40-year-old woman suffering from Drew-Barrymore-in-50-First-Dates Syndrome. She wakes up every day having completely forgotten everything that happened the day before. She’s a living Etch-a-Sketch who get […]

This is getting really old. Another summer weekend, another movie that leaves you wondering how some people are even allowed to make movies anymore (*cough Luc Besson *cough), and why other people would sign up to be part of them (*mumble Morgan Freeman, Scarlett Johansson *mumble). And, even more importantly, […]

I’ll gladly give Seth MacFarlane props for Family Guy. And Ted was easily one of the funniest films of 2012. Heck, I even found myself laughing more often than not at his misguided stint as host of the 2013 Oscars. But there’s no way I’m giving him a pass for […]

As if it weren’t obvious already, Adam Sandler came clean to Jimmy Kimmel last week that he makes sure his movies take place in locales where he wants to vacation. (I first called it back in 2010 with the arrival of Grown Ups.) You can’t blame the guy, really. Heck, […]

Someone please remind me to die before we get too far into the future– if the movies are any indicator. (Of course, if movies really were an indicator, we’d only be only 18 months away from a hoverboard and Jaws 19, and I’m pretty sure neither of those are happening.) […]

There’s just something about epic disaster movies, it seems, that brings out the worst in everyone. Volcano, Armageddon, Twister… A cheesy script, hammy acting, overblown direction, and slip-shod editing all must be requirements whenever thousands of people meet their simultaneous doom onscreen. Add Pompeii to that list. In fact, throw […]

A good car chase can help make a movie. The Rock, Ronin, and The Matrix Reloaded were all made less-forgettable by solid car chase sequences. Getaway, the latest from director Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting), is one long car chase, but unfortunately the rest of the movie is such a […]